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English
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A page-turning account of the international cocaine trade, presented as five lessons in how to move tons of the drug across borders
Forget about cocaine concealed in false-bottomed suitcases or swallowed in ovules resistant to gastric juices. When entire national economies are kept afloat by the money from cocaine smuggling, the quantities these tactics represent are meaningless. When a commodity like cocaine becomes a mainstay of the international...
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Presents the results of journalist Gary Webb's investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in South Central Los Angeles--a story that cost him his job after he uncovered evidence that links the U.S. government and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras with drug profits"--
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"Using sophisticated 3-D animation, this program, divided into two parts, takes viewers on a journey deep into the brain to study the effects of the three substances. The first part illustrates the major functions of the brain and shows how its principal cells, the neurons, communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. In the second part, animated molecules of nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana travel a route from the external...
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English
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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award * A National Bestseller
"An exceptional story collection." -New York Times Book Review
The well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera-including a disillusioned NGO worker, the wife of a special operations officer, and an obssessed ornithologist-are caught, to both disastrous and hilarious effect, in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them.
With masterful pacing and...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making. Why is it so difficult to end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone "important"? Why are we more likely to fall in love when there's danger involved? Here, organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, answer these questions and more. Drawing on research from the fields of social psychology,...
10) The other half
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's-catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who. Or is it 'whom'? Detective Caius...
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English
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"In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology-- more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity-- has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain's pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD,...
13) Heli
Publisher
Gussi Cinema
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Love story between a young girl and a seventeen-year old boy, both of whom had connections with drugs but in opposite ways. This creates a conflict for her family and death for some.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
Español
Description
The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka 'Florecita' who after the killing of Pablo Escobar finds himself in the impossible position of having to go undercover for the DEA or go to the very prison where him mortal enemies wait to kill him. Turning states evidence, Florecita, rising through the ranks of the Colombian Cartel finds himself working two sides of the most dangerous battle known to man.
Publisher
Flatiron Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Swedish
Description
JW, the promising business student who became an organized coke smuggler, is serving hard time in prison and is struggling to get back to an honest life. When the former hit man Mrado Slovovic shows up, his presence changes everything. Jorge returns to Sweden to pull off a giant coke deal. Nevertheless, the deal fails terribly and now he has to flee the country with both the police and the Serbian mafia on his tail.
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The original MTV VJs offer a behind-the-scenes oral history of the early years of MTV, circa 1981 to 1985, when it was exploding, reshaping the culture, and forming "the MTV generation."MTV's first VJs (along with the late J.J. Jackson) had front-row seats to a cultural revolution--and the hijinks of rock stars from Adam Ant to Cyndi Lauper. Their worlds collided, of course: John Cougar invited Nina Blackwood to a late night "party" that proved to...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked Bydlowska's immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism. In the gritty and sometimes grimly comic tradition of the bestselling memoirs Lit by Mary Karr and Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Drunk Mom is Bydlowska's account of the...
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